Family
Scaevola was twice married, to two women named Licinia. By his first wife, who was noted for her beauty, but whom he divorced after her adultery with another consul, he had a daughter Mucia Tertia, who was wife of Pompey the Great and mother of his three surviving children. By his granddaughter Pompeia (wife of Faustus Cornelius Sulla, eldest surviving son of the Dictator), Scaevola had illustrious descendants living well into the first and possibly second century of this era.
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Preceded by Gaius Cassius Longinus and Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus |
Consul of the Roman Republic with Lucius Licinius Crassus 95 BC |
Succeeded by Gaius Coelius Caldus and Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus |
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